What is the meaning of stark?

adjective

• Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment.
  • usage: "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
  • synonyms: blunt, crude
• Severely simple.
  • usage: "a stark interior"
  • synonyms: austere, severe, stern
• Complete or extreme.
  • usage: "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
• Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
  • usage: "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
  • synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
• Providing no shelter or sustenance.
  • usage: "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  • synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, desolate

adverb

• Completely.
  • usage: "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"